Laura Anne Gilman and Loren Rhoads

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson. Booksigning and schmoozing follow in the Cafe. Borderlands will have a selection of books on sale next door at the Bookstore — but please feel free to bring books and magazines from home for signature as well. Come early and grab a bite to eat and a drink at the cafe first!

LAURA ANNE GILMAN – Laura Anne is the author of the popular Cosa Nostradamus novels and novellas, and the Nebula award-nominated The Vineheart War trilogy. Her newest is Silver on the Road, the first in the Devil’s West series from Saga / Simon & Schuster, beginning in October 2015. She has also dipped her pen into the mystery field as well, writing as L.A. Kornetsky (Collared, Fixed, Doghouse, and the forthcoming Clawed). A member of the writers’ digital co-op Book View Cafe, she continues to write and sell short fiction in a variety of genres, selling most recently to the anthologies Genius Loci and Temporally Out of Order (2015)

LOREN RHODES – For ten years, Morbid Curiosity magazine was devoted to the celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unusual true tales, submitted from contributors around the world. Loren Rhoads, creator and editor of the magazine, is a Bay Area novelist, with The Dangerous Type, book 1 of her space opera trilogy and book 2, Kill By Numbers out now, and book 3, No More Heroes is due in November, from Nightshade. She is also the editor of The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two; 17 horror writers and artists spend a long weekend together in a haunted house in Northern California every year!